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This blog was meant to be a record of my thoughts and musings while participating in the Fall 2011 installment of the New Media seminar. It was going to be a compilation of ideas — the good, the bad, and … Continue reading →

The 1977 article “Personal Dynamic Media” by Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg [pdf] lays out a clear vision of what we now are quite familiar with — the laptop/tablet computer. At the time of publication, Kay and Goldberg had positions … Continue reading →

Douglas Engelbart wrote “Augmenting the Human Intellect” in 1962 as part of what I’m assuming is a larger report summarizing the status of their research to sponsors. To me, this essay is about how to devise technology that best works … Continue reading →

(Note: see the first post for background, context, and other information about this seminar) The first essay is a piece written by scientist/researcher Dr. Vannevar Bush for The Atlantic Monthly in 1945, immediately following the conclusion of World War II, … Continue reading →

Watch this space for my thoughts and reflections on the Fall 2011 New Media Faculty-Staff seminar at Virginia Tech. This seminar is led by Dr. Gardner Campbell (seminar wiki here) and will be exploring how our networked world is influencing … Continue reading →